Mike continues the series of sermons on Spiritual Disciplines, which is also our Bible study on Wednesday nights.
Are you listening?
Or, is it difficult to hear God because you’re not tuned in.
Being tuned in to God requires time in His Word.
Scripture provides teaching and training, an understanding of God’s will, and prepare’s God’s people to the good words he has prepared for them (Ephesians 2:10).
In this lesson, Mike talks about the power of Scripture to transform your life, AND to deal with the challenges life will throw at you.
“But as for you, continue in what you have learned and have become convinced of, because you know those from whom you learned it, and how from infancy you have known the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. All Scripture is God-breathed and is useful for teaching, rebuking, correcting and training in righteousness, so that the servant of God may be thoroughly equipped for every good work.“
2 Timothy 3:14-17 (NIV)
“Be careful to follow every command I am giving you today, so that you may liveand increase and may enter and possess the land the Lord promised on oath to your ancestors. Remember how the Lord your God led you all the way in the wilderness these forty years, to humble and test you in order to know what was in your heart, whether or not you would keep his commands. He humbled you, causing you to hunger and then feeding you with manna, which neither you nor your ancestors had known, to teach you that man does not live on bread alone but on every word that comes from the mouth of the Lord. Your clothes did not wear out and your feet did not swell during these forty years. Know then in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the Lord your God disciplines you.
Be careful that you do not forget the Lord your God, failing to observe his commands, his laws and his decrees that I am giving you this day. Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses and settle down, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all you have is multiplied, then your heart will become proud and you will forget the Lord your God, who brought you out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.”
Deuteronomy 8:1-6, 11-14 (NIV)